Luobang Village, Section 5, Loc. 16: Eifelian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Yingtangella sulcatilis
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Productella sp.
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
? Nuculana planumbona
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
? Similoconcha sp. Zhang 1977
sp. A
    = Similiconcha informal sp. A Zhang 1977
Vokes 1980
Misspelling: see above comment
? Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912
sp. A
Bivalvia - Nuculida
Pseudonuculana zhaoi
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Mytilarca cf. chemungensis (Conrad 1842)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Oxytomoidea elegans Pojeta et al. 1986
Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) producta
original and current combination Actinopteria
sgn. (Actinopteria)
Bivalvia - Grammysiidae
Sphenotus yingtangensis
? Sedgwickia yingtangensis
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Paracyclas rugosa
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Guangxi County:Xiangzhou
Coordinates: 24.1° North, 109.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.2° North, 119.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
Stage:Eifelian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
*Period:Middle Devonian *Local age/stage:Yingtangian
Key time interval:Eifelian
Age range of interval:393.30000 - 387.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yingtang Member:Guche
Local section:Luobang Village 5 Local bed:16
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 26.5 m thick. Member is listed as "Upper Member" but in strat correlation table they list the upper member name as "Guche" which I've used here.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green lithified mudstone
Secondary lithology: marl
Lithology description: greenish-gray mudstone intercalated with marl and limestone.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:didn't identify trilobites
Metadata
Database number:4833
Authorizer:J. Alroy, A. Hendy Enterer:M. Sommers, A. Hendy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-24 17:16:28 Last modified:2012-08-20 00:13:43
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

274. R. Zhang and J., J.r. Pojeta. 1986. Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected. Devonian rocks and Lower and Middle pelecypods of Guangxi, China and the Traverse Group of Michigan. United States Geological Survery Professional Paper 1394(E):33-43 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

7411 H. E. Vokes. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]